In my undergraduate days, I had delusion fantasies of becoming a medieval European historian and wasted a lot of time and money moving in that direction. One of the reasons why this was and remains a very difficult career path is that there are few college teaching positions available in the humanities.
But it would appear that if you can land one, you're set for life with a salary in excess of a billion dollars.
I think that the original (and since corrected) job posting is for this one at Sarah Lawrence College, which has a salary of $10,500 to $14,000, not $1,050,014,000. We humanities people struggle with math sometimes.
-via Matthew Thiessen, who quips "Announcing my immediate shift toward research and teaching on Medieval Literature.
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Yeah, if they're expecting 40 hours a week out of me, they'd better raise that salary.
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I'm just curious. For those four months, how many hours per day are required to "create a course" as the listing notes? Does it just involve teaching a class for an hour or two and correcting papers etc. Could the teaching be done via Zoom from home wearing pajamas? Curious minds want to know.
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Yep. There's no point going into this profession.
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A measly 10K-14K with no job security or tenure track. But then you realize it's only for four months. Yeah, still measly.
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